A whole Balor. Who you then had to fight after killing the dragon he was serving as an organ for ...
Yeah it was a tough fight.
Who's Ashardalon?
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A whole Balor. Who you then had to fight after killing the dragon he was serving as an organ for ...
Yeah it was a tough fight.
The answer is a spoiler to "Bastion of Broken Souls":
A whole balor. Once the party defeats Ashardalon, they may have to also fight the balor, who pops free once the dragon's dead.
As he said, he got a very bad heart.
Dire Bare
Legend
As mentioned above, the PCs face Ashardalon in the final module of 3rd Editions "adventure path" (they were all loosely connected by the legends of Dydd and Ashardalon). In the module, Ashardalon was the biggest red wyrm possible in 3e (ancient?) and had the half-fiend template. His replacement heart, a still living balor demon, had the half-dragon template and the PCs had to fight him after slaying Ashardalon, as the balor was now free of his servitude. Other backstory information gave Ashardalon a quasi-diety status, not quite a demigod. And when slain, he "lived" on as a vestige, a powerful entity trapped between life and death (but not undead, just somewhere "outside" the planes of existence).
The story of all those modules would work pretty well with 4th Edition, but the final location of the Bastion of Unborn Souls would need to be tinkered with, as there is no longer a plane of positive energy (elemental chaos? an astral domain?).
The story of all those modules would work pretty well with 4th Edition, but the final location of the Bastion of Unborn Souls would need to be tinkered with, as there is no longer a plane of positive energy (elemental chaos? an astral domain?).
Shroomy
Adventurer
My vote is for Astral Domain, the domain of the spiritual.
Kristian Serrano
Explorer
Don't leave out the connection in Magic of Incarnum. The Bastion of Souls is also a source of incarnum and Ashardalon was seeking its power.
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